Speaking of Jews : rabbis, intellectuals, and the creation of an American public identity /
Berman, Lila Corwin,1976-
Berkeley ; London : University of California Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-251) and index.
Spiritual missions after the Great War : the reform movement and the Jewish Chautauqua Society -- The ghetto and beyond : the rising authority of American Jewish social science in interwar America -- The sacred and sociological dilemma of Jewish intermarriage -- Serving the public good and serving God in 1940s America -- Constructing an ethnic America : Oscar Handlin, Nathan Glazer, and post-World War II social research -- What is a Jew? : missionaries, outreach, and the Cold War ethnic challenge -- A Jewish Marilyn Monroe and the Civil-Rights-era crisis in Jewish self-presentation -- Conclusion: speaking of Jews.
Jews
Jews
Jewish leadership
Judaism and the social sciences.
Religion and sociology